THT 291.a
| Known as: | THT 291.a; B 291; Bleistiftnummer 2639 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz (translation). "THT 291.a". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?m-tht291 (accessed 13 Sep. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Specific find spot: | Rothkuppelraum |
| Expedition code: | T III MQR 13 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Kāvya |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
| Meter: | 4335 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 291 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | [k]c· to nno ta rya ś[ai] ṣṣe nme· tsa – – ·w· sū • [y]ś[ā] mna cme t[ra] k[ā] tsā meṃ ta rre kla [n]· /// |
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| a2 | pa rśi tña¯ ¯ś cwi yā mo rntso ko • w[e] ñi mñä śa nau ta c[cai] śa mñe sa mā ā ro ywe ntsi • /// |
| a3 | sū po nta ta [n]· – – [k]·[s]e no au rccai [śa] mñe [yä] nmā śca pka nte ya [ma] s̝s̝aṃ 30 – /// |
| a4 | ta rre kta nma stra • m· nt[a] ā ke we skau ne krui – – e ntwe tsa lpā tra • [w]· /// |
| a5 | kāṃ tska rtse śco • tu sa [p]ka nte yā mo rmeṃ snai ā ke nrai cwi ma – tra 30 2 śi la ṣṣ[eṃ] /// |
| a6 | [r]·· [•] ·au mo[ṃ] śau¯ ¯l cwi l[k]ā s̝s̝a lle pe lai kne ṣa ñṣa[¯] [¯][p] /// |
| lf | 50 5 |
| b1 | [tū] [sa] ta rre kta nma stra ṣe¯ ¯k ṣe¯ ¯k sū ne rvā[ṃ] mā lkā s̝s̝aṃ – – – – – ññe sa /// |
| b2 | yä knai śa mñe ṣṣe ksa cp[i] lkā s̝a lyi ṣe nne • ṣa mā ññe ne kuse pka nte yā ms̝aṃ cpi /// |
| b3 | ta nma stra pe lai [k]·e [ma] nte mpreṃ lkā s̝s̝aṃ 30 – po pe lai kneṃ tskrau pe [ṣṣe] /// |
| b4 | lai kne ṣṣa k· ·[t]s· – [a] sta rya cpi lkā s̝a [l]· ṣai • ṣa mā ññe ne kuse pka n[t]e /// |
| b5 | tū sa ta rre ktä nma stra po yśi ntaṃ¯ ¯ts [k]e ktse ñmā lkā s̝aṃ 30 [5] pa pā ṣṣo rñe ṣṣe ā streṃ m· /// |
| b6 | kta ññe pe rne ṣṣe śa ktā lye – – lle ṣai c[p]i • o s[ta] meṃ la lñe ne pka nte yā ms̝a[ṃ] /// |
Transcription
| lf | 50-5 |
Translation
| a1 | Then, he will never be liberated from the three worlds. If he is born among men, he will exit the womb blind. |
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| a1+ | "If you were to ask me the fruit of the deed, I would say (it) with imperishable knowledge." |
| a2 | He would not stop speaking (?). |
| a2+ | ... he is born having forgotten everything. |
| a3 | celui qui par ailleurs fait obstacle à l'acquisition d'un vaste savoir. |
| a3 | Someone who prevents (others) from acquiring broad knowledge is born blind... |
| a4 | "I do not tell him his end if he then is liberated from hell. |
| a4+ | ... for the good of the many." |
| a5 | c'est pourquoi après avoir fait obstacle c'est l'enfer sans fin qui lui échoit. |
| a5 | Having made an obstacle in this way, his hell is without end. |
| a5+ | ... of moral conduct... |
| a6 | ... would see his life... (and) would study his own law more. |
| b1 | So he is born blind. He never ever sees Nirvāṇa. |
| b2 | ... would be seen... manner... with his eye of knowledge. ... of someone who prevents (others) in monkhood... |
| b2+ | Thus he is born blind. |
| b3 | So he sees the true law. ... of the group of all laws... |
| b3+ | His pure body that is the law had to be seen. |
| b4 | He who prevents... in monkhood... |
| b5 | Thus he is born blind. He does not see the body of the Buddhas. The pure... of good behavior... |
| b5+ | The seed of Buddha-rank would be sown by him. |
| b6 | ... prevents in leaving home... |
Other
| a4 | I will never tell his end if he is redeemed from hell then. (cf 278) (Peyrot 2013b: 317) |
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References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 181-182
Translations
Meunier 2013: a3 (169), a5 (169); Peyrot 2013b: a4 (317); Thomas 1952: a6 (46), b2 (46), b4 (46), b6 (46); Thomas 1954: a3 (754), b4 (754), b6 (754); Thomas 1997: a3 (90)
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Meunier, Fanny. 2013. “Typologie des locutions en yām- du tokharien.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 123–85.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Thomas, Werner. 1954. “Die Infinitive im Tocharischen.” In Asiatica. Festschrift Friedrich Weller. Zum 65. Geburtstag, gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern, edited by Johannes Schubert and Ulrich Schneider, 701–64. Leipzig: Harrassowitz.
Thomas, Werner. 1997. Interpretationsprobleme im Tocharischen. Unflektiertes A puk, B po “ganz, all, jeder”. Vol. 3. SbWGF, XXXV. Stuttgart: Steiner.
Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.
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